Despite recent upheavals, Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers at the end of the twentieth century. Yet … the Japanese economy is one of the most misunderstood phenomena in the modern world. Aimed at graduate courses on Japan … upheavals, Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers. Yet the Japanese economy is one of the most misundersto …

explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half …

Capitalist World-Economy -- 3 The MIDAs-Steel-Ships Nexus -- 4 Creating Japan's Coal-Exporting Peripheries -- 5 Replicating Japan …

Discontents -- 7 Germany: From Dependence on Persian Gulf Oil to Russian Gas -- 8 Japan: Across-the-board Energy Insecurity -- 9 …

Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The NCC's? Unprecedented … Trapsx and the New Bank of Japan -- Challenges Facing Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan -- References -- Index. …

intervening in Asian political matters in which it had no place. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan …

At the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation's banks with an … economic consequences for Japan as well as for the rest of the world. This book helps us understand the nature …

The structure of Japan's corporate income tax system is broadly in line with those of other G7 countries. However … issues that could hopefully serve as useful inputs to the ongoing discussion and tax debate in Japan …

This paper examines the role of Japan against that of China in the exchange rate regime in East Asia in light of … generate higher average welfare gains for East Asian countries than currency unions with Japan or the United States. Overall …, Japan does not appear to be a dominant player in forming a currency union in East Asia, and this trend is likely to continue …

This paper deals with the patterns of relationship that develop among the parent companies in Japan and their overseas …